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Escardibul, Josep-Oriol; Villarroya, Anna – Journal of Education Policy, 2009
In Spain as in other European countries, policies on school choice have been implemented in tandem with the channelling of public resources into private education. Given the application of public money to private schooling, the primary objective of this paper is to analyse the extent to which Spanish families enjoy equality in their ability to…
Descriptors: Private Education, Private Schools, School Choice, Foreign Countries
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Shin, Jongho; Lee, Hyunjoo; Kim, Yongnam – School Psychology International, 2009
The purpose of the study was to comparatively investigate student- and school-level factors affecting mathematics achievement of Korean, Japanese and American students. For international comparisons, the PISA 2003 data were analysed by using the Hierarchical Linear Modeling method. The variables of competitive-learning preference, instrumental…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Performance Factors